X: has an option for yearly or monthly payments (discount for yearly memberships 2 months free)
Y: has an option for yearly or monthly payments (discount for yearly memberships 2 months free)
Active Members receive discounts % based for future purchases.
Im looking for a solution that will work with other shopify apps or stand alone. I cannot afford Shopify Pro or else I would just do that at this point.
Seems simple enough but ive tried at lease 5 apps and it has been very frustrating.
Clarification, There is no such thing as a “Shopify Pro” plan, some subfeatures have “Pro” appended to indicate additional functionality often at an additional cost.
Shopify PLUS is the enterprise pricing plan that gives access to checkout-scripts that can massively simplify the requirements of a membership business model.
The simplest sanest method currently is having multiple separate shopify stores that use apps to keep things sync’d and send account invite emails. For costs keep in mind a shopify lite plan store could embed it’s buy buttons in another shopify store, and you might be able to negotiate a multiple stores price.
Alternatively you need to keep separate sets of product listings at different price points with skus-sync for inventory. In tandem with with heavy front end customization and backend validation(free shopify flow app) to make sure the right accounts(with tags) are getting the right deals and invalid orders from wrong accounts are rejected.
So managing discount codes, automatic discounts becomes a non factor.
There is also using discount-codes and auto-injecting it for the customer, discount-codes CAN be segmented by customer group; but you still should validate orders on the backend to prevent discount-code sharing of a visible discount-code.
There is also the Locksmith app that can help with gating content for membership business models. The creators of locksmith also make the mechanic automation app that can let you generate draft orders where you can script all types of complex business logic.